Despite having won the recent Oscar as best supporting actor for his work in The Dark Knight, the last film in which the late Heat Ledger starred, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, does not find a buyer in the world of Hollywood.
In the United States, companies excuse themselves by ensuring that the eclectic film Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassusit's "Very experimental" and that they are not willing to take the risk with such an atypical film.
Beyond the opinions of Hollywood and the fixation to guarantee success, it is strange that the distributors do not fight to get the posthumous work of Ledger, which even has the appeal that Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp finished filming, as a tribute to the Australian actor.
Overture and Lionsgate They were interested, but when they found out what was going on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, they fell back. As it turned out, the film written and directed by Terry Gilliam is about a magician, involved in a traveling circus, who manipulates the minds of the public and has a diabolical pact to the Dorian Gray.